Minor head injury –induced striatocapsular infarction in a 3-year-old girl

In emergency departments (EDs), diagnosis of childhood arterial ischemic stroke (AIS) is often delayed due to its rarity, diverse causes, and emergency physicians ’ low awareness of the diagnosis. The potential for delayed diagnosis may be amplified in cases of striatocapsular infarction after a minor head injury (MHI). Reported cases show the patient's age range of 1 month to 7 years, previous minor falls, fast onset of neurologic manifestations (2 min to 72 h), fast neurologic recovery even without antithrombotic therapy (recovery in 2 weeks to 13 months), involvement of the basal ganglia, and normal angiographic findings (1–5).
Source: The Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Visual Diagnosis in Emergency Medicine Source Type: research